<p>Just wondering, what is everyone's tentative plan for the summer?</p>
<p>I'm also wondering if this sounds okay for a summer before junior year:
-Internship with local fashion designer
-Journalism workshops at Columbia University
-Retail job at the mall (just for cash...I'm broke)
-Cheerleading practice all summer with my competitive cheer squad
-Cheer camp with my school cheer squad
-Basically getting in shape through yoga/pilates classes and getting my body back to health.
-SAT prep class (not very fond of this but my parents are forcing me to make time for it)</p>
<p>Basically, I'd like to travel abroad and study and work on my language skills or do something impressive, but this year I've come down with a bad sickness that's taking me months to recover from, and I don't want to travel out of the country like this. Are my summer activities too...boring? I AM pursuing my current passions and this is the best I can do while recuperating my body. I guess I'm not as impressive doing research and internships across the country like many CCers...so I'd like to hear all of your plans.</p>
<p>That's quite a plate. Prepare for some late nights...</p>
<p>I really don't know how you'll do it. You're going to have a lot of scheduling conflicts... I hope you realize that your mall job's boss won't care that you have cheerleading or an internship. And during the summer they might expect you to work 8 hour days, 3-6 days a week.</p>
<p>My suggestion is to provoke your parents to pay the equivalent of the job's cash if they can. </p>
<p>Anyhow, this summer (I'll be a college freshman next fall) I'm going to hang with some friends before we part ways and intern with Google in the Summer of Code. It's going to be exciting.</p>
<p>I'm graduating in June and then taking a gap year before enrolling at Stanford. I plan to go to Norway in July to be a guest farm worker for three months--and hopefully I'll get to see the place where my Norwegian ancestors originated. :D I should probably try to get in touch with my relatives who still live there... I think my dad has some email addresses I could try. </p>
<p>After that, it's really somewhat open. I'll probably want to head south--France or Spain--for winter (I get seasonal affective disorder), but I'm not very sure what I'll do there. I won't have enough money to take classes or just "hang out" somewhere. There's a program where you can live with a Spanish family and teach them English in exchange for room and board, so maybe I'll do that. The following February I'll go to Ecuador, where my family will have just moved (if things go according to plan), and volunteer in a city near where our house/farm is. Then I'll come home in time to see my high school friends graduate, and I'll work a normal job in my hometown until it's time for me to head to California. :D</p>
<p>-summer tennis camp
-community college courses
-online courses
-probably a weeks vacation (Costa Rica probably)</p>
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I plan to go to Norway in July to be a guest farm worker for three months--and hopefully I'll get to see the place where my Norwegian ancestors originated. I should probably try to get in touch with my relatives who still live there... I think my dad has some email addresses I could try.
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<p>That's cool. My mom's side of my family is from Norway. I'm a descendant of vikings :D.</p>
<p>Working in the wonderful world of sandwich shops. O, yea.</p>
<p>And reading alot; last summer it was like 50 or 60 books or something; I plan to top that. And yes, I do have a life.</p>
<p>I always want to save up my money and either go see Dan Bern at the Calgary Folk Festival (only chance I'd have to see him, because he only plays at bars), or go to Washington DC to tentatively stalk Rahm Emanuel and Russ Feingold, while my friend stalks Barack Obama. </p>
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I'm also wondering if this sounds okay for a summer before junior year:
-Internship with local fashion designer
-Journalism workshops at Columbia University
-Retail job at the mall (just for cash...I'm broke)
-Cheerleading practice all summer with my competitive cheer squad
-Cheer camp with my school cheer squad
-Basically getting in shape through yoga/pilates classes and getting my body back to health.
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<p>Sounds fun, if you can manage your time well. (except for the SAT class.) I wish I was pretty enough to go to cheer camp...</p>
<p>I'll be heading off to college next year, so I suppose I'll either
--Go to Mathcamp, which should be really awesome, and this is the last year I can go so I might as well apply.
--Spend a month with my dad in China (which is great because American currency is worth a lot there and we'd be able to live like rich people)...but my dad has to teach in June so I'd only be able to go in July, which conflicts with Mathcamp.
--If I get a merit scholarship from Caltech (which won't happen) I'd probably end up doing research over the summer.
--If nothing works out there's always CTY, which'd be mostly for fun. Maybe I'd take a humanities course.
--Oh yeah, and no matter what I do I definitely have to relearn my chemistry and multivariable calculus. Both of which I suck at.</p>
<p>So yeah, it'll basically be a relax-and-have-fun summer for me. Unless I end up with research, in which case it'd be a paper-publishing summer.</p>
<p>I'm going to (start) taking AP Art History online that will continue into the school year....I'm also (if I get accpeted) doing this research at UF which seems really cool</p>
<p>I'm doing biology at summer school to get that requirement over with. I'm also going to do all my acting classes again since I had to quit most of them during my busy school year.</p>
<p>I was admitted into the National Youth Forum of Medicine which i am going to. Its held for two weeks in UCLA and other prestigious colleges (whopping 2000$ tuition... shiat!!!!!!!). During July</p>
<p>Start ocean fishing and more fly fishing</p>
<p>Goal of 500+ miles of road-biking this summer after i get my bike tuned up </p>
<p>SAT/ACT/Whateva test classes</p>
<p>Prepare for any standardized tests i might need to retake once fall comes in</p>